Kent Blake of the Secret Service #12

The Caverns of Death!

American forces are prevented from advancing further into enemy territory due to Chinese soldiers who are holed up in a cave which provides them with adequate cover from enemy fire. Colonel Kruger then calls in Kent Blake and assigns him to find another way into the cave in order to compromise the enemy's defence. To assist him on this job he is assigned to work with a South Korean official named Lieutenant Rhee who has knowledge of the caves due to the fact he used to play in them as a child.

As they search along the side of the mountain for another way into the cave they run into an American soldier from Kentucky named Clem Bellew who was sent to look for another way into the cave due to his scouting skills. Kent invites Clem to join up with them when suddenly "Rhee" reveals that he is really a Chinese spy and takes them prisoner. He leads them into another opening into the cave where they find that the real Lieutenant Rhee's dead body. The imposter then ties both Kent and Clem to a post and sets explosives to go off on a three minute fuse. As Kent tries to work loose their bonds, Clem -- his mouth full of chewing tobacco -- uses his spit to put out the fuse.

Free from their bonds, they continue to search for the back entrance for the cave. When they find it Kent wants to go back and report it in, but Clem is bent on revenge because many of his buddies were killed in the various failed assaults on the cave. He tosses in a stick of TNT and charges in after it goes off. Unwilling to leave a fellow soldier behind, Kent follows in and the pair easily wipe out the guards that are there. Further inside the cave, they find the enemy ammunition dump and use it to spread gun powder around just as another assault is beginning. When they are spotted by enemy troops, the pair flee back to the opening they came in and light the gun powder, causing as massive explosion that wipes out all the enemy troops.

Recurring Characters

• Kent Blake

• Colonel Kruger

Operation Killer!

When Chinese soldiers capture an American supply truck, they find that it only carries army uniforms, but the commander in charge of the raiding operation finds a good use for the uniforms. Soon, Chinese soldiers posing as American troops stage a series of successful sneak attacks on American positions.

When news reaches Colonel Kruger, he assigns Kent Blake on the task of locating these Chinese soldiers and wiping them out. To assist him behind enemy lines, he is assigned to work with Chinese-American soldier Sergeant Harry Chang. Armed with a radio to alert bombers of the enemy position the two are decked out in Chinese military uniforms and travel behind enemy lines. When they find the group of Chinese soldiers dressed in American uniforms they attempt to radio it in when they are caught by some of the enemy soldiers. The radio is smashed, but Harry -- able to speak Chinese -- manages to convince them that they are Chinese soldiers and manage to slip away before they notice that Kent is an American.

Finding another secluded spot, Kent tries to repair the radio when another troop of enemy soldiers -- in Chinese uniform -- approaches them. While Kent pretends to be wounded, Harry convinces these soldiers that they were attacked by "Americans" and sends them to the location where the Chinese soldiers in American uniforms are camped out. While the two factions of Chinese soldiers attack each other, Kent uses the confusion to finish repairing his radio and reporting in the enemy position for American planes to wipe out both warring factions.

Recurring Characters

• Kent Blake

• Colonel Kruger

Attack at Dawn

Kent Blake is on a recon mission and learns that enemy troops are concentrating for a massive attack. Noting it down on his map he makes as break for American lines to warn his superiors. However along the way he has to slip through an enemy mine field. Crawling on his belly he manages to make it through but is spotted by a Chinese patrol. He pretends to be dead, allowing them to get close enough for him to wipe them out before they notice that he was only playing possum. Rushing through the woods he runs into the rest of the patrol but manages to slay these soldiers as well.

Wounded, Kent manages to make it back to base to report to Colonel Kruger who sends American tanks to wipe out the enemy camp. When Kruger comes to commend Kent on a job well done, he finds that the exhausted soldier is fast asleep in the infirmary.

Recurring Characters

• Kent Blake

• Colonel Kruger